MSF Teams Tackle Cholera Outbreak in Yemen

MSF Teams Tackle Cholera Outbreak in Yemen

br pDoctors Without Borders (MSF) said on August 3 that more than 430,000 people had been affected by cholera in Yemen.ppMSF warned that people in remote areas of the country were of most concern and many were dying needlessly.pp“Unless aid is increased urgently and a preventive approach taken at the community level, people will continue to die of this preventable disease. A sustained and coordinated response, is needed to stem the spread of the outbreak,” said Sam Taylor, Director of MSF in Ireland.ppThe famine and cholera outbreak were a result of more than two years of fightinga that has devastated the country’s health, water and sanitation systems. WFP urged all parties involved in the conflict in Yemen to keep Hodeidah porta open, so that shipments of humanitarian aid could access to the country.


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